The Family Contract: A Blueprint for Successful Parenting

By Howard I. Leftin

Book Overview

A terrific guide for parenting. Get your kids to "buy into" the success of your family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 092916217X
• ISBN13: 9780929162171
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Pia Pr
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

This Works!

Of all the parenting books I've recommended in my 20 years of counseling parents & families, this is the one from which my clients have benefitted the most. The Family Contract really works! Even with the toughest kids, eventually these techniques do work. It is very parent friendly and Dr. Leftin gently guides the troubled parent with humor and personal experience.

Helps parents raise kids who will be happy for such parents

This is an excellent book for parents struggling to do what's right. The author provides the tools to accomplish what you know your kids need to be as happy as kids can be in this world. The techniques will make discipline much more matter-of-fact and much more effective. If the parents aren't yelling, the kids will discover that yelling is useless and, in fact, hurtful. And, in the long run, children will learn how to communicate in a mature way which, I would hope, would translate to happier marriages in the future. Why this book is out of print is quite bothersome to me...I was about to order 50 for some parenting classes. If you can get a copy--do so. It's a great gift, too!

Excellent book for kids at least old enough to start school

I read this book after meeting the author's wife. It made lots of sense and I used a modified version with my students at school. I only have one child. He is well behaved and knows we very seldomly just "give" him money. I have used the ideas from this book to keep communications open between us as he enters his teen years. It has been great and we are still very close because of Dr. Leftin's ideas.